This month’s column shows how to use Excel’s Goal Seek for data analysis.

Use Data Table for what-if analysis. Old-school Excel came with a forecasting ability that looked at historical data and made forecasts with a high-low numeric range, but it was fairly linear ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Don't waste time testing different values individually in Excel. Use a data table to show the results for many different possible scenarios at once. Follow BI Video ...

You can contact me at susansalesharkins@gmail.com. For a subsequent article on this topic, please read: How to use Excel’s Data Table analysis tool.

If you've have lots of data and lots of analysis to do, but little time or skill, you need Excel's Power Pivot feature. Here's how to get started with it.